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It’s hard to reconcile Vice President Kamala Harris’ friendly overtures to gun owners with the footage that recently emerged of a 2007 press conference in which the then-district attorney of San Francisco said cops could conduct random home inspections to enforce compliance with the city’s new “safe storage” laws.
Yes, really.
She told reporters:
We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.
On the one hand, it’s not particularly surprising to hear Harris voice her support for a policy that, even as gun control “wish lists” go, is pretty extreme. This press conference occurred, after all, just one year before she signed onto an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller that defended Washington, D.C.‘s complete ban on handgun possession and argued against any constitutional right to own guns in the first place.
She may now begrudgingly pay lip service to the Second Amendment and tout her status as a gun owner, but it’s no secret that she remains perfectly willing to trample on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms.
It’s still nonetheless shocking that, as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor, she so brazenly and vindictively threatened to violate gun owners’ other constitutional rights, as well.
Harris isn’t some amateur on criminal law who can claim ignorance. She knows (or at least should know) that the Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. As a general rule, the government can’t search a person (or his or her property) without a warrant or absent probable cause that a crime has been committed.
Government officials certainly can’t just waltz into private homes whenever they please, going on fishing expeditions through our closets and attics, looking for evidence of wrongdoing.
She should also know that there’s no “Second Amendment loophole” to the Fourth Amendment. There’s no asterisk with fine print excluding gun owners from the rest of the Bill of Rights. The government can’t force us to pick and choose between our rights, nor can it condition the exercise of one right on the waiver of another.
Americans have the right to keep and bear arms, and we have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. We also have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures while keeping and bearing arms.
Harris’ comments should rightly terrify Americans. You don’t have to be a gun owner or even like guns to see how dangerous this theory of governance is to a free society, and how dramatically it undermines constitutional norms.
If Harris is willing to unilaterally waive gun owners’ Fourth Amendment rights, it’s not unreasonable to ask what other rights she’d be willing to unilaterally waive, and for whom.
Can the government require all who peaceably assemble to forfeit any right against excessive bail?
Can it quarter soldiers in the homes of people who petition for redress of their grievances?
May it prohibit the free exercise of religion, but just for those who insist on their right to trial by an impartial jury?
The correct answer, of course, is a resounding “no.” That’s not how our constitutional rights work—not for gun owners, and not for anyone else.
Not even if Harris threatens otherwise.
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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Daily Caller reporter Reagan Reese has called out CBS News’ ties to the Democratic Party, predicting that former President Donald Trump’s campaign will “hit back” against alleged bias as the news outlet is expecting to host next week’s vice presidential debate.
Following the first presidential debate with Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, ABC News’ moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, received backlash for alleged bias against the former president as they had fact-checked him multiple times throughout the night. While on the “War Room” podcast, Reese detailed the donations CBS News’ leadership has made to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign as the outlet is set to host an Oct. 1 debate between Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
“So, CBS News is set to host the vice presidential debate. CBS News’ executive leadership, alongside its parent organization, Paramount Global, have their leadership riddled with Democratic donors. There are several Paramount board members who have donated thousands of dollars to the Biden campaign in 2020, as well as some CBS News leadership,” Reese said.
CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell, seen here in New York City’s Times Square on May 20, will be one of two moderators of the upcoming vice presidential debate, along with CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan. (James Devaney/GC Images/Getty Images)
“The Paramount CEO has donated to the Biden campaign before. The CBS president has donated to the Biden campaign before. It’s important to note with the CBS president, she donated while she was at ABC News and has not donated since,” Reese continued. “But this is the type of stuff that we expect to see the Trump campaign be concerned about and hit [on] leading up to the vice presidential debate, especially after the controversy with the ABC debate and the bias you saw with the moderators there.”
Reese claimed Americans were “taken aback” following the presidential debate hosted by ABC News, noting how she predicts the Trump campaign will begin to “expose CBS for being biased.”
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“I think we saw the Trump campaign really hit CNN and ABC ahead of both debates on their past bias and their connections to the Biden campaign and how they have supported them in the past,” Reese said. “And so I expect to see that again with the CBS debate, especially. I think Americans were kind of taken aback at what transpired during the ABC News debate and how the moderators just seemed to be teaming up on Donald Trump, how they only fact-checked Donald Trump, but never fact-checked Kamala Harris, despite her making multiple false statements.
And so, yes, I expect to see as we get closer to this vice presidential debate—especially as it’s expected to be kind of this last debate in the 2024 presidential cycle, we don’t expect to see a third debate—the Trump campaign expose CBS for being biased, and hopefully, they’ll be using the Daily Caller reporting to do so.
Following the presidential debate, X users called out ABC moderators for singling in on Trump during their fact-checking and interrupting him multiple times. However, the alleged bias against the former president has been argued by Republicans and other politicians over the years, calling out how Democrats have unfairly covered the former president.
It was eight years ago today that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump held the first of three presidential debates in the 2016 election campaign. It took place at Hofstra University in New York on Sept. 26, 2016. (Qin Lang/Xinhua/Getty Images)
Democratic political pundits like strategist James Carville have previously advocated for corporate media outlets to increase their bias against Trump as the presidential election continues in order to ensure a win for Harris. During a recent interview on “The Sage Steele Show” podcast, Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo highlighted how Trump has been “polarizing to so many people,” leading to an “incredible unfairness” of reporting on him and his administration.
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Hispanic voters who came to the country legally are “not for people just coming over the border” illegally, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue says.
“No,” Unanue said, when asked whether former President Donald Trump’s border policies would cost him the Hispanic vote in the 2024 presidential election.
The CEO is a longtime supporter of Trump and was thrust into the political spotlight four years ago after stating publicly that the U.S. was “blessed” to have Trump as president. The remark triggered calls from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., and others to boycott the Goya brand, which sells its products in the U.S. and many Spanish-speaking countries.
The boycott failed, and “business has been great” since then, Unanue says.
Unanue remains a vocal Trump supporter, and in his new book, “Blessed, Donald J. Trump, and the Spiritual War,” he explains why he thinks Trump is the leader America needs at this moment in history.
The chairman of the Hispanic Leadership Coalition, Unanue, whose grandfather immigrated to America from Spain, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the biggest issues on the minds of Hispanic voters and why he is an unapologetic Trump supporter.
Listen to the podcast below:
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On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine what might be the worst week Vice President Kamala Harris has ever had—right before the biggest debate of her life.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins historic legal victories, in which appeals courts in Michigan and North Carolina strike his name from the presidential ballot. Both sides of the upcoming political boxing match on ABC News are now moving to the locker rooms for their final preparation for Tuesday.
The Daily Caller’s Mary Rooke joins us to discuss her newest groundbreaking documentary, “American Squatter,” a masterpiece examination of one of the most insidious trends sweeping the nation. How do people learn how to claim “squatters’ rights” and what can people do to stop it? Where is this most prevalent, and why are people showing police Uber Eats receipts?
After a week of horrendous reporting by the legacy media, we list some of the worst sins from The Associated Press taking quotes from Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio out of context to desperate and empty reporting from the USA Today network of newspapers. No wonder these news organizations are hemorrhaging money and readers.
Finally, we dig into a bit of “Mail Time” to answer a few of your questions! Catch the live radio show and livestream weeknights at 7 p.m. EDT on The Daily Signal’s YouTube, X, or Facebook—and subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode or exclusive interview!
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ERIE, Pennsylvania—The chaser last Wednesday in Sen. JD Vance’s, R-Ohio, trip to this all-important county in the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania came when the Republican vice presidential nominee said Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris can “go to hell” for her handling of the 2021 attack at Abbey Gate in the final days of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Harris, for her part, has claimed that she was the last person in the room when Biden made the decision that led to the death of 13 American soldiers.
It was a decision that Harris pointedly said she was “comfortable with.”
Vance said that if he was going to discuss any questions related to Abbey Gate, “It’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. … She can go to hell.”
His remarks came in response to a reporter’s question about an alleged incident that occurred when former President Donald Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery with family members of those who were killed in the attack.
While the “go to hell” quip made headlines, it was all the other things Vance did last Wednesday and the groundswell of support he received that are important in understanding where voters’ sentiments lie toward either ticket.
While the national audience read about Afghanistan, what was not written but will definitely be talked about by voters in Erie was Vance’s well-received off-the-cuff speech at Team Hardinger, a local logistics and trucking company, where he talked about the dignity of work and the importance of community.
It was a speech that connected so well with those in attendance that one woman wondered out loud where the heck his teleprompter was, to which Vance quipped, “Ma’am, I don’t need a teleprompter. I’ve actually got thoughts in my head, unlike Kamala Harris.”
There was also nothing written about his visit to Firestone’s Kitchen, located at Gordon’s Butcher Shop, where one of the cooks, Mark Spagel, gave the former Marine a beer after everyone around the bar asked Vance to join the group in a toast.
An ice cold beer he downed to cheers.
The standard narrative coming from the national media is that Vance is weird, that he doesn’t connect with Midwest voters, that Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., is everybody’s father and coach, and “Oh look, he wears plaid,” because that is what the national media is writing.
Or they are writing about one incident in which a woman became uncomfortable when Vance walked into a bakery and there were dozens of cameras on her because he was there.
These are the same blind spots in the media that were in place in 2016, and they really haven’t changed. If, by chance, Trump and Vance do win and the national media are again surprised, it is because they only wrote about Arlington and did not balance it out.
What they do not understand is that the majority of people who were at the events in Erie will be talking about what they experienced and heard there, not what happened in Arlington, Virginia.
The happy-warrior vibe Vance gives out comes from a place of gratitude, he told me in an interview.
“I’m here, and I’ve been given this incredible opportunity, and I’m going to try to make something of it, and the way to make something of it is to actually get out there and talk to people,” he said.
“And yeah, sometimes that’s mediated through a really hostile interviewer, but I’m not going to sit here and whine and complain because somebody asked me a tough question,” he said. “There are still a lot of people who are going to hear the answer. It’s very amazing to know that I get to make this case directly to the American people, and you should take every opportunity you get.”
Vance said that on his drive into Hardinger, he was struck by how similar the post-industrial city was to Middletown, Ohio, where he was born.
“I just think it is important to go where a lot of politicians often don’t go and make the case directly to people, and hopefully, they feel seen,” he said of places such as Erie.
Once upon a time, the General Electric plant here employed 18,000 people. Just about everyone who lived here had an uncle, father, grandfather, sister or mother who worked there. Today, after being known as GE Rail, it is now called GE Transportation and owned by Wabtec.
The most recent report by the Erie County Data Center found that Wabtec employed 2,240 people in the county. Like Middletown, Erie is a region left behind by globalization, automation and technology. The locomotive, tool and die shops, machine shops and factories that once prospered here have struggled to rebuild and rebrand the region.
Voters here matter, and they want to hear what Vance and Trump have to say, as well as Walz and Harris. Whatever way Erie County goes, so goes Pennsylvania, and so go places such as Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Georgia.
“Not everybody’s going to agree with me on every issue, not everybody’s going to agree with Donald Trump on every issue, but I hope that after the campaign, what they’ll at least be able to say is they cared enough to show up and they cared enough to take questions and they cared enough to come to the places where we work and where we live, because that’s what a person who wants to be our president or vice president should do,” Vance said.
Christopher Borick, political science professor at Muhlenberg College, said it cannot be overstated how important Erie is.
“It also cannot be overstated how important showing up and meeting people where they are and connecting with them on issues that impact their lives, like the economy, [is],” Borick said.
Borick said that while Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have larger populations than Erie, “it is counties like this and Northampton, Luzerne, Cambria, and Beaver who will decide the election because, as I say all the time, in our state, it is the margins in those places that matter.”
Vance said one of the things he hears a lot from people he meets and talks to on the trail is the struggle to achieve the American dream of homeownership.
“It is the most common complaint that I hear, and I hear the same exact complaint coming from younger people versus more elderly people, but the perspective on it is slightly different,” he said.
Vance said he hears frustration from the young people and heartache from the elderly.
“Young people tell me that when their parents were their age, they could work and as long as they played by the rules and did a good job, they could afford to buy a home,” he said. “They could put down some roots. They could send their kids to a nice school. And they can’t do that anymore.
“When you talk to their grandparents they’ll say, ‘Well, we just want our kids to be able to have as good of a life as we did, and we’re worried they’re not going to.’ And we are worried that they have no prospects of homeownership, and they’d like to build a life down the street from us but they can’t because they can’t afford it.
“It just makes you realize that we really have failed in a very big way in this country,” he added.
Vance said one way to think about Trump’s presidency is that it was a brief respite from 25 years of things broadly going in the wrong direction.
“And I think it’s always possible to overstate these things,” he said. “There’s still a lot of joy, and there’s still a lot of great things in this country, and people are still raising families, and it’s not all bad, but it’s a hell of a lot harder than it should be, and I think people feel that in a very acute way.”
Vance said one of the things that has surprised him as he is going across the country trying to earn votes happened just the day before and involved his mother.
“We were in Big Rapids, Michigan, and we go to this A&W root beer stand at Big Rapids—one of these places that’s open six months out of the year because the other six months out of the year, it’s way too cold—and the very first person wants to give my mom a hug,” Vance explained. “And the person said to Mom, ‘You’re such an inspiration, and a lot of us have struggled with addiction and the fact that you and your son kept at it, that’s an inspiration.'”
He said with a smile, “When you come from a nontraditional or nonconventional background, I think there’s a certain tendency to want to hide it a little bit and not to tell the story. And obviously, I told the story in ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ But even then, you don’t necessarily want to talk about it so much because it feels a little uncomfortable. You realize that there are a lot of people who take, not even from my story, but from my mom’s story, take some inspiration from that.
“And that is definitely something that I’ve learned, and it’s been a very cool thing to watch it unfold.”
After Vance’s speech and press conference, which included local and national press questions, he visited Gordon’s Butcher Shop, which, despite the power outage across the entire city block, was packed with people wanting to take a selfie, shake his hand, or just say hello. Vance took the time to fulfill every request.
On the 3-mile drive to the retail stop, people stood outside their homes, businesses, and cars to wave at him.
The same thing happened on the 7-mile drive through neighborhoods and business districts to the airport where his campaign plane was waiting to take him to Wisconsin.
What mattered at this stop was the people of Erie and how they responded to Vance. That is the thing people will be talking about for weeks.
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CNN thinks it understands what sets Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz apart from the average politician: honesty. “[W]hat Walz has—and it’s rare in politics these days—is that he’s totally comfortable in his own skin. He knows who he is. He’s authentic. And he doesn’t try to be someone else,” said Chris Cillizza, who formerly was on CNN.
Yet Walz stands accused of purveying a string of lies, errors, and prevarications stretching back to his earliest days in politics, fibbing about everything from his military service to whether he won an obscure award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce as a 29-year-old man. Here is a far-from-exhaustive list of the mistruths Walz has communicated.
Walz served 24 years in the National Guard, an honorable action worthy of praise in its own right. During his National Guard service, Walz was stationed in Norway and, when a different unit deployed to Afghanistan, he took its place in Vicenza, Italy from Aug. 3, 2003, until 2004, according to NPR. Walz retired in 2005, as the unit he led was about to be deployed to Iraq.
Yet over the years, he has implied he faced combat during the War on Terror, as well as allowing others to repeat the claim without correction. In a video clip the Harris-Walz campaign shared of a 2018 event calling for gun control legislation against law-abiding citizens in violation of the Second Amendment, Walz said, “We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.”
The campaign muddied the waters, telling CNN, “In his 24 years of service, the [g]overnor carried, fired and trained others to use weapons of war innumerable times. Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country.” A Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson, Lauren Hitt, later claimed Walz “misspoke.”
Yet the errors had piled up for years. A 2006 article in The Atlantic claimed Walz faced a hostile interrogation at a George W. Bush rally after security saw evidence that Walz supported 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry:
His challenge prompted a KGB-style interrogation that was sadly characteristic of Bush campaign events. Do you support the president? Walz refused to answer. Do you oppose the president? Walz replied that it was no one’s business but his own. (He later learned that his wife was informed that the Secret Service might arrest him.) Walz thought for a moment and asked the Bush staffers if they really wanted to arrest a command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.
Numerous video clips have shown figures, including then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claiming Walz served in combat, without any correction, provoking charges that Walz engaged in “stolen valor.”
A group of 50 military veterans in Congress wrote a letter to Walz expressing their “grave concern” over the fact that Walz may be “a heartbeat away from becoming the Commander-In-Chief. You’ve already demonstrated your unwillingness to lead in time of war and a lack of honor through your blatant misrepresentations exploiting and co-opting the experiences of America’s combat veterans for personal gain.”
The lead author of the letter—Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla.—lost both legs while serving in Afghanistan.
“America’s veterans and servicemembers are rightfully concerned about what would happen to them should you ascend to the Presidency. When America asked you to lead your troops into War, you turned your back on your troops.”
“Until you admit you lied to them, there is no way you can be trusted to serve as Vice President,” they wrote.
Those who served in uniform seem the most upset.
Vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who escaped Appalachian poverty first by enlisting in the Marine Corps, before enrolling in Ohio State University and Yale, said when his country “asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do, and I did it honorably. When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he’s been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with.”
“For 20 years, they let this guy go by with a lie that he deployed to Iraq, which he didn’t, and that he retired as a command sergeant major, which he did not. I mean, that’s just blatant lies,” said Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia.
“I served in the Minnesota National Guard with him. He literally abandoned us when we were about to be deployed to Iraq. He’s a coward and should be treated as such,” stated J.R. Salzman. Multiple members of Walz’s unit, including a chaplain, have spoken out against Walz’s misrepresentation of his military record.
Legacy media outlets, so quick to pounce or artifice any misstatement from former President Donald Trump, have proven remarkably understanding about Walz’s erroneous comments.
The New York Times ran an article “Explaining Claims About Tim Walz’s Military Service,” which noted that four veterans “do not believe the governor is guilty of ‘stolen valor,’ but that he did misrepresent his record at times.”
Some seemingly confessed that they have concerns over the political impact of Walz’s claims, which legacy media fact-checkers minimize or otherwise spin. “False and misleading claims of such a trivial nature might not seem particularly harmful, but a deluge of them could easily add up to real damage at the polls, according to experts. This is especially true when they go after a figure such as Walz, who is still relatively unknown on the national stage,” admitted CBS News.
Yet a few have corrected the record. “There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in the position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was. So that is absolutely false when he said that about gun rights out there,” said CNN correspondent Tim Foreman. More recently, USA Today columnist Ingrid Jacques referred to Walz’s “disturbing record” as “a bit of a fabulist.”
Walz has repeatedly referred to his rank as “retired command sergeant major,” including in the official Walz-Harris campaign biography. Yet Walz actually retired as a master sergeant, because he failed to complete required coursework at the U.S. Sergeants Major Academy when he quit his unit in 2005 to run for U.S. Congress.
“You have stated that you are ‘damn proud’ of your service, and like any American veteran, you should be. But there is no honor in lying about the nature of your service,” stated a letter from 50 veterans serving in Congress. “Repeatedly claiming to be a ‘Retired Command Sergeant Major’ when you did not complete the requirements was not honorable. Nor was it honorable to claim to carry weapons ‘in war’ when you had not served in war, and abandoning the men and women under your leadership just as they were getting ready to deploy was certainly not honorable either.”
Eventually, the Harris-Walz campaign website stealth edited Walz’s biography. Yet an official video shown on the third night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention before his vice presidential acceptance speech said that Walz “served 24 years in the National Guard, rising to Command Sergeant Major.”
The Democratic Party has repeatedly claimed the 2022 Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, has unleashed a torrent of pro-life laws that threaten everything from miscarriage care to in vitro fertilization. Walz claimed to have a very “personal” connection to IVF, claiming he and his wife, Gwen, owe their two children to IVF.
In fact, Walz invoked the Lord’s divine providence for the controversial procedure. “Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children,” Walz told MSNBC in July. Walz weaponized the issue against Vance in August, alleging, “If it was up to him, I wouldn’t have a family because of IVF.” (Vance has spoken in favor of IVF, a controversial procedure in which 9 out of 10 children are never born and unknown millions have been “discarded,” aborted, or abandoned.)
But in an Aug. 19 interview with Walz’s wife, Gwen, Glamour magazine reported that the couple did not conceive via IVF at all. The Walzes participated in a different fertility procedure, known as intrauterine insemination, in which sperm are injected into the uterus. Gwen Walz thanked a nurse in her neighborhood who assisted her “with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process.”
The Harris-Walz campaign attempted to defend Walz’s misleading IVF statements. “Governor Walz talks how normal people talk,” said Mia Ehrenberg, a campaign spokeswoman. “He was using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments.”
Despite Democratic claims to the contrary, IVF was never threatened by an 8-1 Alabama Supreme Court ruling that allowed the parents of children negligently destroyed in IVF clinics to file a civil case under the state’s 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
As a candidate for Congress in 2006, Walz apparently misled voters about his 1995 arrest for driving under the influence. Walz had claimed the entire arrest was a misunderstanding, based on hearing loss from his valorous military service. But CNN reported:
According to court and policerecords connected to the incident, Walz admitted in court that he had been drinking when he was pulled over for driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone in Nebraska. Walz was then transported by a state trooper to a local hospital for a blood test, showing he had a blood alcohol level of .128, well above the state’s legal limit of 0.1 at the time.
Walz accepted a plea deal, admitting that he put himself and others in danger by getting behind the wheel.
“It’s just a dangerous situation,” Walz said in a court transcript, which Alpha News, a conservative Minnesota outlet uncovered in 2022. “Not just to myself, but to others who aren’t even involved with it.”
When Walz ran for the House of Representatives in 2006, his official campaign biography stated that in 1993, he “was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.” Yet he never won any such award.
“We researched this matter and can confirm that you have not been the recipient of any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce,” wrote Barry Kennedy, then-president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, in November 2006. “I am not going to draw a conclusion about your intentions by including this line in your biography. However, we respectfully request that you remove any reference to our organization as it could be considered an endorsement of your candidacy.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed Walz’s opponent, Gil Gutknecht, who told The Washington Free Beacon that the fabrication “fits a pattern of misleading and fabricated statements he has made throughout his political and personal life.”
Walz’s campaign later updated the biography, claiming he won an award from the “Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce.” His campaign manager waved off the controversy, telling local media the misstatement had been a “typographical error.”
Despite the Democratic Party’s continual warning about misinformation—something Walz has erroneously said is not protected by the First Amendment—the Harris-Walz campaign has doctored headlines in its online advertisements.
The campaign reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on campaign ads that presented actual news stories from The Associated Press, USA Today, NPR, PBS, CNN, CBS News, and other outlets—but with glowing headlines written by campaign staffers. The intention is to convince readers the unbiased reporters heaped praise on the candidates.
Some of the website’s purveyors say the campaign’s actions have undermined their journalistic integrity. “They lied to every single person that saw that ad. It’s misleading, it’s dishonest, and it hurts us as the company, our news brand,” Steve Hallstrom, president and managing partner of Flag Family Media, told the Daily Caller in August.
Walz appears to have even misled the American people about his palate. In an online video, he apparently stated that “black pepper” is the spiciest food he eats, although Walz has a taste for spicy food.
In the video, Walz gestures toward a table and tells Kamala Harris, “I have white guy tacos.”
“What does that mean? Like, mayonnaise and tuna? What are you doing?” replied Harris, repeating a racial stereotype.
“Pretty much ground beef and cheese,” explained Walz.
When Harris asks if he “put any flavor in it,” Walz said, “No,” because “black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota.”
“Listen, I’m just not much of a spice guy,” said Walz, posting the clip on social media.
Yet in Minnesota, Walz is apparently known for enjoying spicy food. In January 2022, Walz referred to his “award-winning recipe for Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish” (which contains chiles and other peppers) online.
Rolling Stone magazine, which has a strained relationship with the truth, described Walz’s original comments as a “joke.”
This article has been corrected to reflect that Chris Cizilla is no longer at CNN.
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On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the bizarre goal of Vice President Kamala Harris to distance herself from her role in the Biden-Harris administration while claiming responsibility for what she considers to be its successes.
How can a vice president be both the insider and the outsider in the race for president? How is it going for legacy media’s attempt to cover that up?
The double standards get much worse as we take a look at the wild case of Michigan officials who are trying to keep independent presidential candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West off the ballot while forcing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who last week endorsed Donald Trump, to remain on the ballot despite asking to be taken off.
We chat about political tokenism and what makes a “photo op.” After Trump paid a visit to Arlington National Cemetery to honor the 13 fallen service members killed during the Biden-Harris administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the former president was hit with allegations of using the event for political gain.
Who gets to decide what makes a trip necessary for a leader to make instead of a campaign convenience?
Oklahoma’s superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters, joins the show to answer a few questions about the controversy of adding references to the Bible to Oklahoma’s U.S. history standards, and whether firing over 300 staffers at the Oklahoma Department of Education affected local students in any discernible way.
Finally, we tackle the legacy of “mansplaining” and how it’s being used as a crutch for the Left as we prepare for both Harris’ first TV interview since she became the Democratic nominee and the first Harris-Trump debate on Sept. 10. Why is her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, required to chaperone the female vice president?
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To call the past eight weeks in presidential politics unprecedented would be a wild understatement.
It was just over two months ago when President Joe Biden—a man deemed highly successful and mentally sharp by our legacy media—took to the stage to debate his predecessor, Donald Trump, and promptly expired.
It took another month for Biden to drop out of the race, prompted by the backstabbing Democratic cadre of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; and, most importantly, former President Barack Obama, all of whom wheedled donors and cudgeled Biden into submission.
It then took promptly one day to solidify Vice President Kamala Harris in Biden’s stead.
It has been more than a month since Biden was defenestrated in favor of Harris. Since then, Harris has answered precisely zero difficult questions from the media. She has spent the intervening weeks being “brat”—that is, social media-friendly and utterly vacuous.
We know that she likes Doritos, that she enjoys cooking, that she supposedly makes a mean brisket, that she wears Chuck Taylors. When asked outside Air Force Two what she will do next this week, she answered, “We’re going to walk up those stairs.”
Deep stuff.
And yet there are less than 70 days to the election. Republics are predicated on the idea that the voters deserve to know something about the candidates for whom they vote.
Voters already know everything there is to know about Trump. He’s the most overexposed political figure in history, and we’ve already seen what his presidency looks like. But voters have been shielded from Harris.
According to the legacy media, her 2019 presidential campaign policy positions are completely irrelevant: She’s now sent out surrogates to disown her own position on decriminalizing border crossings (she was in favor), electric vehicle mandates (she was in favor), private health insurance (she was against), “reimagining public safety” or defunding the police (she was in favor), and fracking (she was against), among others.
All of that in the last month alone. Yet the media apparently have zero questions.
Meanwhile, we’ve been told that she’s not even tied to the administration in which she is currently the vice president. This week, Politico headlined, “Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally.” Tries to? She’s the sitting vice president! Her boss—the same person she shivved to steal his nomination—is currently still the president.
Sam Stein of The Bulwark and MSNBC headlined, “Dems spent four days in Chicago castigating, belittling, and demonizing Donald Trump. And then they did something even more vicious: They turned him into the incumbent.” Trump the incumbent? She’s the sitting vice president of the United States!
All of this is why Harris must avoid scrutiny. She’s obviously squirrelly on debating Trump: First, she tried to bully Trump into accepting the same debate rules he’d accepted against Biden. Then she denied him extra debates. Then she tried to switch the rules.
Her campaign has gone through Talmudic discussions internally to determine if and when she ought to be interviewed. Their verdict: OK, fine, but only if pretaped while joined by happy but cloddish sitcom dad running mate Tim Walz.
This entire charade smacks of disdain for the American people. Rig the nomination process in favor of Biden; throw Biden off a cliff in favor of Harris; hide Harris behind an Instagram filter while she dances and calls herself “Momala” for the duration of the campaign.
At no point do Democrats want Americans to understand just what Harris will do as president, or to connect her to what she’s already done as vice president.
Perhaps it will work. If so, Americans will only have proved H.L. Mencken’s cynical theory: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
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